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It's easy to fall into choice paralysis around here.
Books. Bikes. Boomsticks.
“I only regret that I have but one face to palm for my country.”
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Streets of SoBro...
Did you know this camera can make phone calls?
I've been messing with some of the features on the new-ish portable magic elf box's camera. Today I tried using the 'panorama' function. Above is a piccie of the heart of SoBro, the intersection of 54th and College, taken whilestanding on the corner in front of the Fresh Market and panning from southeast to northwest. Eateries visible in the picture are, from L to R: Bebop Pizza, The Jazz Kitchen, Moe & Johnny's, Cornerstone Coffee, Sam's Gyros, Twenty Tap, and Fat Dan's.
It's easy to fall into choice paralysis around here.
It's easy to fall into choice paralysis around here.
I'll see your urban existence and raise you the facts that my cubicle is close enough to my range that I can head out there for 50 rounds of practice on a "lunch hour" and then make a 40 minute commute out to my home in the boonies where I can safely shoot in the back yard :)
ReplyDeleteScott J,
ReplyDeleteIt's not a contest; there's nothing to "see" or "raise".
I like living places where I can shoot off the back porch, too. I have before and may again someday. Who knows?
I am happy where I am now, however. Then again, I'm usually happy wherever I find myself. More people should be. ;)
Didn't mean to offend Miss Tam. Hope I didn't.
ReplyDeleteHave to admit I'm jealous of all your culinary options sometimes even though the Birmingham area has plenty.
I dine out a whole lot less than I used to so I can reallocate that money to the IDPA addiction.
Scott J,
ReplyDelete"Didn't mean to offend Miss Tam. Hope I didn't."
Oh, no, you didn't; it just got me thinking about how much I like living here... And then again, how much I've liked pretty much everywhere I've lived, and most places I've visited, too.
I guess I'm fairly easily amused. ;)
I thought I could do the happy anywhere thing so after nearly 10 years in the same spot we tried relocating 4 hours to the Northeast.
ReplyDeleteI was completely shocked at how much it ripped our (as in my whole family) hearts out.
When it became clear our house here wouldn't sell before we ran out of money for rent over there I decided we should come back and was blessed to find a new job to allow that.
Now with a vastly altered life perspective I'm happier than I've ever been with my environs.
Make phone calls?
ReplyDelete...Is there an app for that or something?
Googleopolis has a zillion eateries, but we're moving from glut, excess, surplus, plethora and surfeit to the hilly exclusive back country where all there is is beef. I think.
ReplyDeleteAfter 25-years growth we're fed-up with the attendant equity problems of noise, congestion, noise, busyness, increasing crime, noise, petty theft, and now the worst of all: excessively hipster-youts' - and going to a place where I can CCW.
That's funny...kinda like the look on my software developers'faces when their phones ring...they occasionally almost look confused as they use those things for so many other purposes.
ReplyDeleteI honestly forget what my ringtone is some days; and it's the bagpipe lead-in (AKA, step one, find the cat)from March of Cambreadth, so unless I happen to be hanging out at Dragon*Con or something, it's unlikely to be someone else's phone. (I usually think something triggered my music player)
ReplyDeleteYou know what else people do with those magic elf boxes? Answer mail! Imagine!!!
ReplyDeletelol.
Actually my old cheap digital camera can't compete with my cellphone anymore.
What flavor of portable magic elf box?
ReplyDeleteOg,
ReplyDelete"You know what else people do with those magic elf boxes? Answer mail! Imagine!!!"
That's just crazy talk. :o
Ratus,
My no-contract/unlimited data carrier started offering the Galaxy S II late last year, so I snatched one up. The LG Optimus was indeed just a gateway smartphone...
Google's magic elf boxes are, however, surprisingly bad at posting to blogger/blogspot with.
ReplyDeleteMy brother lives a block away from that corner. That is my favorite coffee/beer stop when I am in Napolis
ReplyDeleteWhy-o-why...now I need a magic elf-box with a no-contract unlimited carrier, especially if I'm going to be up in the hills. Who is it?
ReplyDeleteOk nevermind I has google-fu!
ReplyDeleteNotClauswitz,
ReplyDeleteI use Virgin Mobile, which piggybacks on Sprint's network. Check coverage maps carefully: Sprint does not cover, say, Castle Frostbite or Blogorado, which makes my vacations extra vacation-y. ;)
And now I am trying NOT to engineer some bogus excuse to go to Indiana... so far the best reason against is close exposure to Tam levels of industrial grade snark... well, it would be AWESOME!!!!
ReplyDeleteOkay, that's not helping.
I'll apologize now, but I got mighty uncurious about the other food options in that area after Yats moved in. I'm pretty loyal to my cajun slop with rice.
ReplyDeleteSame results here with the Optimus V (and thanks again for your original write-up.) After months of finding myself forced to uninstall two apps for each new one, I refurbished it with a new battery and screen protector and then set it aside against the day when my spouse would escape the clutches of that other provider that starts with 'V'. I bought an HTC Evo V to replace it despite all indications that I'd need to hack it to fully enjoy it; sure enough, I'm on my second physical phone & third software load. OTOH, it's a very nice small tablet computer that occasionally makes phone calls... when I'm not using the Kindle app or Gutenberg sites. :-)
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